“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.” ― Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Once again, our country and most of the people, have fixed upon the delusion of dying from a non-lethal flu, while simultaneously allowing their liberties and freedoms to be crushed by totalitarian politicians, conspiring with Big Pharma, Big Media and billionaire oligarchs. Time for another story of the covidiocy engulfing our nation of obedient sheep as we enter year two of this descent into madness. I’ve previously documented the pathetic mentally deficient state of the ignorant fearful masses on trips to Cape May Lighthouse State Park and Valley Forge National Park. The sad part is the picture below isn’t actually a joke. We’ve all seen freaks like this driving with a mask and/or face shield alone in their car. These people are mentally unstable and shouldn’t be allowed in public.
It had been a year and half since we had seen our oldest son. We last saw him and his wife in Loveland, Colorado in September 2019 at their wedding. He was supposed to fly home a few times, but the scamdemic and job issues interfered with those plans. My wife saw ridiculously low airfares on Southwest and booked a four day trip for last weekend. So, my wife and two other sons embarked on our first flight during this ridiculous exercise in fear over an extremely non-lethal flu.
I have rarely worn a mask in the last year and never for more than 30 minutes. The only way we were getting to Denver was by wearing a freaking mask for about six hours straight. So I bit the bullet and put my Covid-1984 mask on at the airport and didn’t remove it until we arrived at the rental car place in Denver. The flight was uneventful, but wearing a mask that long must be unhealthy.
Remember the days when you’d get a full-fledged heated meal on a three and a half hour flight? Now you get a glass of ice water and a minuscule packet of pretzels. Not even a damn soda. As we were boarding the stewardess looked at my mask and asked what it meant. I said it was referring to Orwell’s 1984 and she said Oh. I don’t think she understood the point. Later on the trip a guy took a picture of the mask while we were on the train shuttle between gates. He was probably sending it to someone with the comment that he was with one of those “conspiracy nuts”.
After getting our rental SUV, we zipped up to Loveland in about an hour and met my son for lunch in downtown Loveland. This was our first experience with the restaurant scene in Colorado. We had to wait 20 minutes for a table at 11:45 am. If everyone is frightened of this “disease”, why are they packing restaurants. But at least we kept each other safe by wearing masks as we walked to the table and then immediately take them off. The idiocy of this rule is epic. Later that night we tried three different casual dining places and were told a 45 minute wait at each. This told me that people must no longer be afraid. I was actually happy to see this. At least we had time to watch a nice sunset in the parking lot.
I wasn’t so happy later that night. We’ve stayed at the same hotel on our trips to Colorado. The rooms were clean and the breakfast buffet in the morning was excellent. Using Covid as an excuse, no more breakfast buffet. They put out paper bags and you can grab a frozen Jimmy Dean sausage, egg and cheese croissant and a yogurt. They used to have coffee available 24 hours per day. Now they have it from 6:30 am to 9:30 am. After a long day of travel, we went to bed before 10:00.
Then the fun began. At 11:00 pm it sounded like a van load of illegal immigrants had invaded our hallway. There was screaming, yelling and banging on doors. They sounded drunk. It died down for awhile and we got back to sleep. Round two started at 1:00 am with more screaming and banging on doors. Round three commenced at 3:00 am. These lowlifes are simply rude hispanic trash. If this is the diversity Biden and his handlers are promoting, our future sure is bleak. These people will never assimilate and live according to our social norms.
The next day we followed my son to Lory State Park, west of Fort Collins, and near the Horsetooth Reservoir. As with most drives in this part of the country it is scenic. Even though it was 65 degrees, the reservoir was still frozen. I guess the -20 degree temperatures a few weeks ago had frozen all bodies of water solid.
Many of the trails were closed but we were able to find a few that were passable. The first one we tried got dicier as we wound our way up the narrow path. Eventually it turned to all ice, so we reversed course.
When we moved to the next trail, we came across this warning. I already know what I’d do if I met a mountain lion – I’d probably crap my pants. These aren’t the kind of posters you see in my suburban enclave. The biggest danger is crossing paths with a skunk.
My wife was just happy to have all her boys together again. After a wasted year of government mandated bullshit, it was just great to have us all reunited again. It’s lucky she picked last weekend, because they are having two feet of snow today and tomorrow. That wouldn’t have been fun.
I also think it’s time to squelch the rumor that I forced Dani to crop this picture so my pandemic belly would not be visible. I’m a dude. I couldn’t possibly be that vain. It’s also only a rumor that I’ve gone on a diet as soon as we got home. I guess those fried chicken sandwiches (with bacon) and double cheeseburgers (with bacon) weren’t all that healthy. Who knew?
After a good night sleep, with no Mexicans roaming the hallways, we decided to drive up to Estes Park, a quaint little town nestled on the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park. It is about 30 miles from Loveland on Route 34. The 45 minute drive winds upward through canyons, mountains, and a river that runs through it along the entire route. We saw dozens of fly fisherman trying to land some rainbow trout along the recently thawed river.
The closer you get to Estes Park, the more spectacular the views. The majestic Rocky Mountains rise above the horizon and you swear you can hear John Denver crooning in the distance.
This is the view as you come into the town of Estes Park. There aren’t many more beautiful views anywhere in America. But, these distant views are much more inspiring than what we witnessed in the town.
In my mind I always thought Colorado was populated by lovers of the outdoors, who hunted, skied, and generally had a frontier mindset. And maybe that was so at one time. But not anymore. At least not in Estes Park. There is one main corridor that only extends for several blocks. It’s mostly restaurants, bars, ice cream shops, and tourist traps selling souvenirs and tee shirts. There was one shop that drew our attention – the Elkins Whiskey store. We decided to buy my oldest son a bottle as a gift for entertaining us for a few days. Then my other two sons decided they’d like a bottle. So three bottles it was.
A few bad experiences with whiskey during my lifetime (involving blackouts and projectile vomit) have made me a non-whiskey drinker, but I guess young people haven’t learned my lessons yet. It did make me reminisce back to the days when buying them Hot Wheels cars and baseball cards made them happy. Those days are a distant fading memory. I guess that’s life.
We never wear masks when walking outside. It was sixty degrees and sunny. Only a covidiot would be frightened of fresh air and sunshine. It was terribly disconcerting and sad to see 90% of the people walking around Estes Park fully masked. It’s inexplicable to me that all these people are so fearful and/or so subservient to governmental authority. They don’t have to wear masks while walking outdoors, but they choose to.
I guess this is a credit to the government/media propaganda machine that has created this hysteria of irrational fear. Edward Bernays’ decomposed carcass must be so proud. There certainly was no frontier spirit or critical thinking among the populace of Estes Park. Cowardice, obedience, and unquestioning belief in governmental authority rules our world today. After a couple New Belgium beers and another unhealthy sandwich on an outdoor patio of a local eatery, we headed back to Loveland.
On Monday we killed time, stopped at my sons condo to say goodbye, and headed off to the airport for what we hoped would be an uneventful flight home. It was not to be. Everything went smoothly as far as check-in and boarding the plane. I planned on working on an article while in-flight so I asked Dani if I could have the inside window seat. Best move I ever made. Except that there wasn’t enough room for me to open the laptop. I was left to reading Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.
Dani, on the other hand, sitting in the middle seat, was left with the unknown of who might plop down beside her. She hit the jackpot. An old dude who had the gift of gab. Within ten minutes he had told her his life story and showed her about five hundred pictures on his phone. You know the type. Sitting next to an extrovert who must talk is my worst nightmare. She tried to draw me into his vortex, but I just pretended to read, while snickering to myself under my mask. I don’t think I’ll ever get the window seat ever again.
But this was just the under-card to the main event which was about to be unleashed with the fury of a BLM riot. All of a sudden, ten rows ahead, a ghetto trash Laquisha began shrieking at the top of her lungs about the white guy next to her kicking her bag. It was as if he had murdered her baby daddy. Within seconds, the entire plane knew that it was a $3,000 carry bag that had been rudely and purposely kicked by the evil white dude. I’m guessing the bag cost less than $100.
She continued to shriek and wail for at least ten minutes. All the stewardesses and stewards tried to calm her down, but she began accusing them of treating her with disrespect. If I had been close enough to record it, it would be the viral video of the week on the internet. She was low class and thought using her black privilege to make a scene would get the guy kicked off the flight and/or get her bumped up to a front of the plane seat. Security eventually arrived and began assessing the situation as she continued to loudly make whatever point she was trying to make. It looked like she had won when the guy was escorted off the flight.
Then the tide turned. The security lady began interviewing the shrew and those around her. After getting the picture, she told the lady to get up and depart the flight. She gathered up a shitload of bags and other crap. The guy probably couldn’t avoid kicking some of her stuff. To our delight, the white dude was then brought back onto the flight and took his seat again. The stewardess eventually took the microphone and without fanfare apologized and said she hoped the rest of the flight might be less eventful.
The plane exploded in applause, except for the three black people in the seats directly in front of me. Who knows what happened to Ms. ghetto trash, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she used the race card to get a free ticket. All I know is we were delayed 45 minutes and I ended up going to bed at 12:30 rather than 11:45. This is why I hate to travel and mingle with the ignorant masses. The covidiocy runs deep and makes many sheep actually think they are being patriots by masking and obeying. It gives their pathetic lives meaning to have a cause, no matter how ridiculous and at odds with the founding principles of this country.
We’ve endured a year of this tyrannical bullshit jammed down our throats by corrupt low IQ politicians, the corporate mass media propaganda machine, pretend medical experts like that troll Fauci and dangerous sociopath Gates, and fear mongering Karens across the land. And now Dementia Joe has been instructed by his handlers (Obama & Rice) that if we bow down and obey like good little servants we might be able to have three people over on the 4th of July for a hotdog and burger.
It’s past time to heed Charles Mackay’s advice and stop being cowards. Burn the damn masks. Become an enemy of the state and start disregarding their un-Constitutional mandates and regulations. Call out their lies. Make their lives miserable. Take back your country. They will not willingly restore your freedoms. They love this totalitarian control over your life. The time has come for real resistance.
“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.” ―
It may look bleak today, but every individual act of disobeying these psychopaths in suits might inspire another act of disobedience. And before long the tide will have turned and enough individuals will have come to their senses to reverse this descent into madness. Our choices are liberty or bowing down to Gates, Schwab and the rest of the Davos devils. It won’t be easy, but what other course do freedom loving citizens have? Buckle up. The fight has just begun.
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
― Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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Ive been travelling the entire scandemic. Hotels with breakfast are a mixed bag. Ive stayed in some that cancel it and will not let you serve your own coffee…. Others the food preparer would actually serve you the breakfast. Varies from state to state.
I do instrumentation service in a few labs that test for covid. Most of the techs dont wear mask in the lab in general, nor do I. I know one lab where they entire lab got the coof. None of them wear mask now. One tech got both the mrna shots, and still got the coof.
Wow you found hotels serving breakfast? I have stayed at 6 hotels in the last year and they were all fucking stupid.
But, in SD this summer, I was at a wonderful packed restaurant for breakfast where not a single person was wearing a fucking mask. It was the only normal public experience I have had in a year.
A big thank you to Gov. Noem. American, surface to core. If only we had one like her in the late, great, state of Colorado.
Hold your horses there, cowboy. You might want to check out the article below before you lock lips with Gov. Noem.
Skipped town outta the Front Range almost two years ago and haven’t looked back. Feels like escaping a trap. Relief.
Let’s look at this from a different perspective.
God’s or a biblical one.
Do you really think God gives a rat’s fanny about mask or no mask?
He’s much more concerned about our heart’s than our masks.
It’s really more an issue of personal pride than anything else.
Don’t let it go before a fall.
Freedom to assemble and worship, work and fellowship unhindered by government or others and to freely speak our minds and have the ability to defend those rights is my main concern.
Masks suck but I think God and I can live with masks. A forced experimental injection is another story.
The mask is an outward sign of allegiance to the beast system. It’s not the mark, it is a step on that path. The VAXEDcine is the second step. So, walk with the beast as long you like.
The mask is the first mark, on the forehead. The gene therapy shot erroneously being sold as something else, introduces the operating system for the mark on the hand.
They’ve required that God get vaccinated?
By that standard not wanting to be anally raped is an issue of personal pride.
I do not wear a mask because I am neither sick, nor fearful of becoming sick. That’s all the reasons I need and neither of them have anything to do with pride, but with simple logic. To behave in an illogical fashion at the behest of a stranger seems to be a singularly foolish course of action, but everyone is free to do whatever they like.
We often think alike.
I’ve done what I’ve always done when there is a bad flu around, wash my hands more often, don’t touch my face unless I wash my hands first, stay home if I feel like I’m getting sick, hold my breath and turn away when somebody coughs or sneezes. Easy stuff, and it works very well.
I didn’t wear a mask at all at any time for 11 months til I had to fly to Oregon for a job that lasted for a month in Bend and the Marriott l stayed finally gave up on trying to make me wear one. I pleaded medical. It was a residence inn so I ate in my suite. Just finished the job last week and the flight home took me through Denver so we were like ships passing in the night.
More Colorado Bureaucratic insanity
Colorado is a shithole populated by east coast and california progtards. sadly it wasn’t always like that.
One of the most visible, early turning points in Colorado’s path downward was the 1970’s voter rejection of the Winter Olympics to have been held at various venues in the state. Not passing judgement one way or the other, just observing how the collective thought process had by then undergone major change. The cancer really had taken hold by 2008 when the DNC showed up in Denver and gave the country the Chocolate Jesus.
I’m actually very pleased with that decision. The luge track would have been build running down the mountain where my parents had just build a house (1971) and where they still reside. A beautiful mountain meadow would have become a parking lot and I would have grown up somewhere far less awesome.
I’m with DRUD on this one. Stopping the Olympics didn’t save Colorado but it slowed its CALIFORNICATION for at least another 20 to 25 years.
The young woman in the pink jersey is cheating. Will she be called for it?
It occurs to me, perhaps it’s trans and the rules are different.
I’m out of touch with that sort of reality.
Years ago at a scenic lookout in RMNP I was
attempting to pull my wife’s leg by stating that the grey snow on the mountains was concrete poured to prevent erosion and rock slides. A person nearby asked really? To which I affirmed. If one says things with conviction people believe you.
I proposed to my wife on a rock near a stream at Sprague Lake in the park over 3 decades ago. We visit that spot every year.
Try the 5003 distillery in Fort Collins with your sons next visit.
…and ditch the Flat Tire beers from New Belgium Brewing.
It’s an employee owned business which I think is awesome, but the man who was the original co-owner and head brewer ditched the shrewish “woke” wife who became too much to handle. Like Jerry’s ice cream I’d rather stick my finger in my eye than buy their stuff.
On the other hand Mr. Quinn, thanks for sharing your travels. Its appreciated.
I have pictures of my folks hiking in RMNP back in the 1930’s before they became engaged; he proposed to her one Sunday afternoon while skating at Evergreen Lake-during the Depression, and they both had good jobs.
Colorado is seriously fubar. I met a guy in line at the bank who just moved out from Denver, he described it as, and I quote this, “…a wasteland”. Congrats to governors Chickenchoker and Polesucker on their stellar performance. If there was any way I could I’d GTFO of this state so fast people’s necks would kink watching.
It is pretty bad. It is a state of Kool-Aid drinkers for sure. You have good weed, though.
KaD , all this can be traced back to the invasion of the Californicators over the last 40 years; they ruin every beautiful place they touch.
I am actually sitting at gate A37 in Denver hoping I get out with my family before it all shuts down here. I spent the week here with mask requirements seemingly everywhere. I promised my wife I would behave this one time, but every minute is painful. i find myself almost hoping that they will follow through on the gun bans. That is a line I won’t cross. I find it unfathomable that so many people are OK with this. Sheeple indeed. If another person tells me to “stay safe” I will scream. Fuck that. Stay free.
I hope you don’t have a Laquisha incident.
So Texas is mask mandate free, except at the discretion of the business. I head out to discover that there were a couple of places that required the mask and one BBQ place that didn’t. Outside in the nursery, fresh air and all, 95% wore a mask. I was the only one in the BBQ place sans mask. Thirty plus people all covered up and….me. This entire Covid deal has merely reinforced what I’ve already known: most people are blisteringly stupid. Truly stupid and easily manipulated.
Then you have this happy event in Texas, courtesy of Bank America, a stupid cop, a stubborn woman and a truly brain dead populace……
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/65-year-old-texas-woman-tackled-arrested-not-wearing-mask-day-after-abbot-lifted-mandate
Why is the officer stupid?
Private property owner’s reserve the right to require a mask on their own property whether the public agrees or not.
I don’t agree with BoA’s policy but would honor the property owner’s request out of respect for their private property rights or I would go elsewhere.
The police are simply responding to a trespass or request to leave private property complaint and are unfortunately put in the middle.
Acting crazy won’t win converts on either side.
If they are your bank, you do not have an option of going elsewhere. Don’t be such a dumbass.
Yes I do. Even if they all suck.
Yup, she should just go elsewhere, to another bank, to get the money she has deposited in Bank of America…
How come you got a thumbs up and not me? Sheesh. People do not get sarcasm. And I bet that most banks have implemented the same policy.
Hopefully, there will be a run on that branch. Wouldn’t that bea shame.
They do recognize idiots when they see them.
Today a mask required, tomorrow a vaccine and mask required to enter.
She was there to close her account.
We closed our accounts at BoA when I heard they were charging extra fees and there were rumors of theft from safe deposit boxes. Years ago I had a run-in with a bank manager who got rude and nasty over a car payment when I was going through some rough times during a few Dark Years in the mid-90’s. I was short on money but made it a point to pay off the loan early which robbed the bank of interest income.
Ever since I’ve had a burning contempt for bankers.
BofA was also one the first to end business with gun and ammunition makers. Fuck BofA.
Don’t even know why a knowledgeable person would bank at these monstrous entities. Join a local bank or a credit union.
Thank Congress and Obama for turning U.S. banking into a crony monopoly.
There are no local banks where I live, and the credit union I used to “belong” to, turned into a standard 21st Century Bank calling itself by a different name, probably for tax purposes.
I sure hope that they paid all of the credit union members, before signing on as a bank. Credit Unions and banks have way different rules to operate under. A bank will strip mine your account to pay stockholders: credit unions cannot do that. Banks pay their stockholders first and foremost. Banks are for-profit institutions, while credit unions are non-profit.Might be time for you to do some investigation work.
Interesting comment, Spaniel. About a year ago I read an opinion about how Charles Schwab is essentially now a bank-they still conduct a brokerage business, but their thrust has decidedly changed to that of a bank. An interesting observation: a few days after the first indication of financial stresses with the massive shorting of zombie companies I received a promotion from Schwab to do more banking business with them. The irony: Schwab was one of the several brokerages that had repeatedly denied access to their customers for trading purposes. One has to wonder how bad they are hurting?
They are still a credit union, but there is nothing at all different about what they do from you’re average modern bank.
Like I said, I quit.
Anyway, why should I investigate when the NCUA is already keeping a close eye on them?
There is no fucking private interest that takes precedence over peoples autonomy and liberty. It should not be fucking acceptable to a society to allow them that discretion. There is no fucking public or private interest in what any individual does with their own body.
Apple’s and oranges. Public vs. Private property rights. They have every right to ask you to leave for no shirt, no shoes, no thongs, loitering, being boisterous etc… Just like you do on your own private property. No mask as well.
If she wanted her money put on a mask or walk through the drive thru, get your money, close your account and go elsewhere.
If she refuses to honor their rules on private property and leave on request she gets arrested for trespass. If she resists she gets arrested for that too.
The officer was being very reasonable and giving her every opportunity to comply or leave and she chose to do neither.
This is completely on her.
Public vs. Private property. Apple’s and oranges.
This is not a race or sexual orientation issue.
False dichotomy you were sold by a crappy education. Why can’t I hire only native americans at my business? It’s private.
You can’t generally discriminate solely on race or gender because you are born with it. It isn’t a behavioral choice.
Is it discrimination to not hire morons to teach advanced mathematics? They were born with it (or without it).
Oh, I forgot – math is now RACIST!
No, you can’t discriminate as such because it is Constitutionally protected. Thus, neither can private entities discriminate ate on other characteristics protected in the Constitution. Once you break through the mental barrier implanted by the education system, it is clear.
Private establishment owners have the right to not allow firearms on their premises and we have the right to frequent a different establishment.
Whatever rights we require another property owner to relinquish we are bound by the same authority to relinquish it ourselves on our own property.
It goes both ways.
The right to require a mask or not require one should be the property owner’s right and no one else’s including the government’s.
As I wrote elsewhere on the thread, they are not strictly a private concern in this circumstance because they are a business … and actually are holding this person’s property that they want back.. That is a false canard and you are displaying your programming. Your public/private argument is completely bs.
I can’t make sense of this.
“Whatever rights we require another property owner to relinquish we are bound by the same authority to relinquish it ourselves on our own property.”
Could you rephrase it? Thanks.
Is your comment confusing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights with the Civil Rights Act? The worst Act of all of them. It destroyed private property rights.
Civil Rights Act exists under the Bill of Rights. It merely better defines and describes the meaning on an aspect of the Bill of Rights.
What constitution are you talking about?
That’s the most unclear exposition of an idea I’ve heard in some time.
Eyes,
Don’t be an idiot. If it is private property, they should be able to do anything they want. But they are not. Government is using private businesses to introduce and enforce the tyranny.
Business plus government is facism-not a good look.
In the real world discrimination is a survival mechanism, it’s also how groups of like minded people come together, they use their powers of discrimination.
The entire argument in the U.S. today is a result of what people did in the past, which was to exclude an entire class of people from public life. The only reason they were so successful at it was they had the government on their side, when the government was required to be neutral.
I thought, in my youth, that surely by the 21st Century, people would understand that what people do, and how they do it, are much more important that skin color or ethnic group or national origin.
And I really hoped the government would see the error of it’s ways and be neutral as the law requires.
Who told you you couldn’t?
Isn’t the NBA the precedent here?
Governments have no rights. They have only limited granted powers. Only individual humans have human rights, including property rights.
Because race and sexual orientation are sacrosanct?
Dumbest argument you’ve ever made.
Every single thing you listed is arbitrary and capricious, pick and choose.
For a law to make sense it must transcend our particular favorites or our bete noirs; it should be neutral to all factors to be just.
Why is this so difficult?
You can’t throw someone out of your private establishment soley because of their race or gender. They were born that way and biologically have literally no control over that. That is discrimination.
Private establishment owners can and alway have been able to set dress code and behavior standards on their premises that if not adhered to can allow them to require you to leave on their demand.
If you choose not to the owner is not required to perpetually tolerate you an an have forcibly removed.
Nothing new here.
Freedom of association is a First Amendment right.
Legally, the freedom of association is considered to be a fundamental right protected by the Constitution. In the Supreme Court case of N.A.A.C.P. v. Alabama(1958), a unanimous Court ruled that the NAACP did not have to reveal to the Alabama attorney general the names and addresses of the NAACP members in the state because it would violate the NAACP members’ freedom of association. Writing for the Court, Justice John Marshall Harlan II said in the decision that immunity from state scrutiny of membership lists … is here so related to the right of members to pursue their lawful private interests privately and to associate freely with others in so doing as to come within the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment. [Alabama] has fallen short of showing a controlling justification for the deterrent effect on the free enjoyment of the right to associate which disclosure of membership lists is likely to have….
Freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the “liberty” ensured by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/attachments/lester-maddox-with-sign-1964-jpg.563247/
Excellent. College women of color have taken that to heart while demanding dorms that exclude women without color.
Why is that on an “alternate” history site? It’s real history, well documented and everything.
I don’t personally like mask mandates at all but I am a great fan of private property owners rights.
Everyone’s by especially my own.
Once I am “in business” I am no longer strictly speaking a solely private entity.
You swallowed the bullshit?
There are two categories, Public, and Private.
Public means it’s governmental. Public services like the provision of clean drinking water and safe waste disposal and defense of America fall in the Public realm.
Private means everything else.
Private property rights no longer exist except for the trivial. Come on Eyes.
You mean that girls must be allowed into Boy Scout troops, and boys must be allowed into Girl Scout troops.
Isn’t that what ruined them for boys and girls?
Eyes wide shut. The problem I see is that the Govt is talking out of both sides of their mouth on this issue; See the Gay cake case(s).
For a law to make sense to people of average intelligence, which SCOTUS said is a requirement for any law to pass constitutional muster, it must be much shorter than 2-3,000 pages long, and written in plain English.
You are absolutely on the mark that “equality under law” means just what it says, and our governments have been tasked with making sure that happens.
Why else woul dwe pay them?
Many banks consider depositors to be ‘members’. If you have money deposited with the institution, you are a creditor not a customer. The argument can be made that she was not trespassing.
Exactly right.
Um, but why is a public policeman enforcing “private” public accommodation guidelines that aren’t laws?
He’s not enforcing a mask policy he is technically enforcing a trespass offense because the person refused to leave the private property on request of the owner or manager.
Once you are told to leave private property upon the request of the owner or agent of the owner you can be charged with trespass.
The institution had their property and refused to relinquish it.
Actually when you deposit money in a bank it becomes theirs to do with what they want. They just promise to return it. Look it up.
Exactly – and she was there to demand the return of her money and they refused. If the bank decided to require customers wear a green dress or else not be allowed on the premises, would that also be enforceable?
It seems to me that it wasn’t that long ago that if someone entered a bank wearing a mask, the police were called immediately since it was presumed that the individual was a bank robber.
I understand your point … however you miss the other one that she was there to take it back and no longer allow them to use it. At the moment she says I want it back, it is no longer theirs to use.
Indeed, but we should try to make things so they aren’t always just about opposing sides. What do the sides stand for? I stand for legally enforced property rights.
Some here have said killing all progressives would work… Or killing all the Niggers, or killing lots of people in any case. Chose who you hate the most I guess…
why is it private property owners only get to reserve the right to do what the government agrees with? Isn’t it a violation of my rights if they are forcing me to comply? and did any business get sued for throwing out those with the wrong political opinions? But any business and corporation can openly discriminate for wrongthink. But I don’t have the right to not wear a goddam mask.
So a baker isn’t allowed to refuse service to homosexuals but a bank can refuse service to someone who has their money in said bank. Your arguments have some serious flaws….
I guess I could’nt articulate my disagreement with all of it properly, sorry. I’m on your side.
Individuals have the right to do things, even if they are things the government recommends.
If you think your business will do better if you mandate masks, then you should try it out and pay attention.
You are wrong to think it’s OK to discriminate against wrongthink. It’ s only people thinking rationally that are fair game for discrimination.
As long as it’s not the government doing it, or someone else doing it under color of law, I’m OK with it.
Cuck-A-Licsious
Private property you say? More like a corporate welfare whore that likely would not even be in business if the American taxpayers weren’t forced to bail the thieving scumbags out every time their greed bites them in the ass. Yes. We built that.
Subsidy Summary Subsidy Value Number of Awards
State/Local $234,546,133 133
Federal (grants and allocated tax credits) $454,984,847 11
TOTAL $689,530,980 144
Loan / Bailout Summary Total Face Value Number of Awards
Federal loans, loan guarantees and bailout assistance (not including repayments) $3,627,643,344,709 712
TOTAL $3,627,643,344,709 712
https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?parent=bank-of-america
Everyone must also wear a hat inscribed with the name of the business and a yellow badge indicating agreement with the philosophy of the establishment.
What if the bank decides it’s policy is that you had to wear a pink tutu to enter the bank. Would that be okay to arrest someone if they refused?
No. You couldn’t arrest people for not entering that bank.
Do you think they would have a lot of customers? I don’t.
Wow you are the problem. Criticizing those that would defend our freedoms. You and your ilk are everything that is wrong with this country… Chip
You are a fucking moron back of dicks cocksucking asshole. Ever heard of natural law fuckface?
Private property rights are lost when either the owner of the property is NOT human (a corporation), or when the private human owner accepts a license to engage in commerce which REQUIRES the acceptance of a corporate government issued ID.
Because these corporations exist only because of a government issued privilege, they can no longer be considered “private”. They are government created entities, thus REQUIRED to accept the same limitations that government itself has.
To believe otherwise is just plain dumb, and saying that government itself has no limits. It is that boneheaded belief in the nonexistent omnipotence of government and the idiots that work in it that have brought us to here…..
Glad someone knows that privacy is purely a human/individual right.
Unfortunately, as Covid demonstrates, if the masses don’t know what rights are, then it’s all pretty moot.
Ask a libertarian about liberty and corporations making rules like this. Tyranny by government is bad, but tyranny by corporations is good, if you are a lolbertardian.
I don’t think too many people are seeing the deliberate coordination between government and business to completely undermine liberty, autonomy (KANT), and freedom in general. The only thing less accountable than democracy is a “public-private partnership” within it.
Another concept that is important to keep in mind is that coordination does not require direct communication. You are not going to find a Rothschild or Warburg or even Soros giving orders to anyone. The oligarchs who will benefit by pleasing those people already generally know what they want. The same goes for institutions.
Piss off.
Libertarians seek a society without tyranny by anyone over anyone.
Crony capitalism is tantamount to Fascism, and libertarians hate it. Always have, always will.
Libertarians! The modern-day cave dwelling cro-magnons of self sufficiency.
Their motto: “get off my back and leave me alone….until I need you.”
You paint “libertarians” with far too broad a brush.
Most libertarians are people who demand a limited government to protect lives and property, and also demand that all laws be equally applied.
Their most burning issue: Muh pot
Public-private relationship is a “polite” term for fascism. The government is compelling private concerns to enforce stupid mandates that are not law. And almost all of corporations and many small businesses are willing to play the game.
All you idiots siding with the bank on this…then go elsewhere and say we need to push back…EXACTLY what does push back look like to you?? Please tell us HOW to push back? Don’t give me that private property BS. Unfortunately, businesses have been put in the middle of this nightmare. If THEY don’t push back in all this ridiculousness then it’s up to each individual to do so whenever and wherever they can.
That women stayed calm. I didn’t see her standing next to anyone. She even asked someone else where their mask was and that person said she didn’t need it because she was 6 feet away! Are you freaking kidding me!
I get the whole private property argument, but we’re beyond that now. I say she did the right thing to hopefully expose to more people how insane this nonsense is! Hopefully this wakes up more people. NO one even came to her defense!! Fucking sheep! What if she was unable to wear a mask??? Would that have changed the outcome?? No, it wouldn’t because no one gives a damn about HIPPA laws anymore. Yet…you all are fighting for the rights of Corporate America to behave this way! Shame on all you fucking sheep! YOU are the reason there is no end in sight from this BS!
Boycott banks? Is that your plan?
If companies won’t stand up to tyranny and cops won’t stand up to tyranny, then who else will? This is falling on the actions of each individual to do whatever they can, regardless if it fits your rules of push back or not. Something’s gotta give. What’s your fucking plan?
This woman made the decision to take it as far as getting arrested, now will be dealing with court dates and legal fees, and nobody had the courage to stand with her, rip off their masks, and refuse to comply? When you get enough freedom fighters willing to do that then *maybe* something will change. They won’t arrest everybody. The bank doesn’t want a nightmare PR problem on their hands.
It’s disgusting to me that so few have the courage to do what this women did. I don’t give a damn about private property rights. Some people can’t wear a mask….and so this will be their fate.
If I ever encounter you fucking pussies NOT standing with freedom fighters…for YOUR benefit…I’m going kick your fucking ass. Get off this damn site if you don’t have the balls for this shit. People supporting corrupt corporate America and cops who can’t stand up to tyranny…because, ya know, they’re just doing their job…instead of supporting freedom fighters make me nauseous.
“Good times make weak men…”. We.are.weak.
I nice young lady gives me a mask at the door to the store. I put it on until I’m inside, then take it off and put it in my pocket.
That supports freedom fighters, right? It might even make me one!
Imagine that. A woman in AMERICA who won’t cover her face in public! Are we the fucking Middle East?
Nope…All good. Got out on standby and hit ATL a good hour before my original flight is set to leave.
Maybe a Shenay Nay then?
Isn’t it funny how the CDC has concluded masks don’t work, yet there is deafening silence on that?
The CDC said masks don’t work right from the beginning.
Stay free, my friend.
Great travelogue.
But, I would have told that dude to go fuck himself … the guy who took a picture of you. Maybe even smashed his camera. Maybe. It’s easy being a tough guy over the internet.
Maybe the guy liked the mask and just wanted to show his friends and get one himself
Fighting is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get. Keep that in mind. I have a brother that is 5’5”,scrawnyish, and a total asshole. He is trained in Muay Thai, and he loved nothing more than to go around kicking the asses of guys twice his size. As I said, he was a total asshole. Another brother was an expert at using anything at hand to give an asswhupping. I watched him taking a well-deserved ass beating once, where I stayed out of it as he had it coming, in a cafe. Well, damned if he didn’t get hold of one of those Eiffel Tower looking salt shakers, and when he did the tide turned. He wielded that shaker to great effect, and put knots all over the other guy’s head. Gotta hand it to him, he was damned resourceful when cornered.
I don’t think snapping one pic is crossing enough of a line to send me apeshit, but that is just me. Everyone has their own lines. And maybe he liked it. But if Admin thinks the guy was being an ass, he is almost certainly right.
I thought he might have liked the mask. It was Avalon who suspected he was an asshole. She is better at reading people than me.
And yet she married you. 🤡
Still a wonder of the world as how you managed to pull that off.
Expect the lunacy to get worse. Strong delusion.
In God’s eye’s there are only two different kinds of people.
True believers saved by Grace through faith in Jesus the Messiah and everyone else.
Don’t be Satan’s useful idiots salvation is a free gift from God to all who will partake
I doubt you can see through God’s eyes.
I expect God sees more in terms of Good people and Evil people.
That raises a question; Can evil people be true believers?
I think yes.
Hard to believe truly evil people can be true believers but true believers can still choose to do evil.
True Believers fight hard against doing evil, but sometimes lose out to their human natures.
People who choose to do evil are mostly likely true Believers in Satan’s plans.
Yes on the strong delusion.
Serve only the dictates of your own conscience. It will hold you to a higher standard than a thousand laws.
This world that they are manifesting is observably wicked and profane. To submit to it is to become part of that world. Listen to the voice of your inner council and take heart that it will never lead you astray.
Be careful our own hearts can be wickedly deceptive. Following after the heart of the God of the Bible alone will keep us in the right general direction.
I believe the proper prayer is for us to know and have the heart of God as our own.
Much easier said than done.
I’ve got a long, long way to go.
Yes, you do. Good luck.
I listened to the voice of my inner counsel and committed serious resistance last Friday night. For the first time in a year, I went to my favorite restaurant in search of some delicious oyster butter bombs and was greeted by the owner, who offered a bear hug, (horror of horrors). Then I took a seat in a very crowded room. I was maskless, as was every single person in the place. Ah Liberation. I noticed a wonderful thing: that everyone in there was smiling nonstop and having the time of his or her life.
This event occurred in the South Kingdom of Gavin I, despite the fact he decreed double masking a few days prior. I’m sure some are following this order, but I haven’t encountered any.
After these transgressions, I waited all week to develop Covid, but remain healthy. The hill I will die on is required vaccination. I think there is lot of waking up going on, but the diehards persist. All I know is, I wasn’t put on this earth for the purpose of staying safe. (I don’t mean to minimize common sense, I love it.) And no bureaucrat is going to design my July 4 celebration.
You did what you wanted to do? Good job.
My friend and I plan to blow up a quarter beer keg on the 4th, or more properly, we plan to launch it into the atmosphere like a rocket, using an explosive charge. This will all be carefully planned, and the videos show that we did it right!
I’d like it if the owner of my favorite restaurant gave me a hug, but I don’t think she’s likely to do that…
Que up “Sympathy for the Devil” by Rolling Stones and dare to guess his name. I think the Stones actually got it, and if you listen carefully you can hear it from 40 years ago from the City of London, which has the same corporate structure as the District of Columbia.
Do you think that the Declaration of Independence was a living thing for more than 36 years (1776-1812)? Or at most till 1913? Then you are a fool for the bankers.
It’s exactly what the “New Boss” is asking for, just a little sympathy and some grace. Fuck that, Demento Jo.
If you believe that masks work, then it will be a simple matter for you to believe that I am wearing one.
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Now playing as I write this, an original copy of the vinyl that I have packed up every time I moved since I was a teenager.
Be secure in your faith and your agency for all that is vital.
I maintain there is a bright side. If you focus on the actual results of their dictates it becomes obvious that this is an exercise meant to reduce the population. Gates comes from a long line of Eugenicists. See James Corbett for details. These fools breathing in the poisons their bodies are trying to expel are committing a slow suicide. So, if you’re going to reduce the population why start with the best and brightest? If you wanted to reduce the dog population would you start with the $5,000 pedigree breeds? So, fuck em. I do feel for the children all masked up but, here again, there is a logical, if cruel rationale. If their parents don’t take the simplest measures to ensure their health, listen to any of the many Tom Woods podcasts on the subject say, then how smart can their kids be? Chances are they’re future Andrew Cuomo voters. What a great time to be a cynic.
Bottom line: Keep flinging shit.
Are you paid to fling shit, or do you do it out of a sense of obligation? That would make you a true believer, if you fling shit because you think it will be helpful.
I fling shit because that’s what the situation calls for.
I bet you’ve thought every situation you’ve encountered in your life called for shit flinging.
Fuck yourself.
No. Not interested.
The company I work for has more PhDs than not, and those PhDs are all avid mask wearers. Most of the machinists and technicians do not wear the rag, and for some strange reason, the people not wearing a mask in the supermarket all seem to be on the bottom end of society.
It’s a valid point. Perhaps the most defiant, independent minded are going to be the remnant.
I wonder if it’s because they are the ones that don’t trust the establishment.
I’ve worked at a similar place (lots of PhD’s) – it was the largest group of highly ‘educated’, highly intelligent ignorant people I had ever encountered.
Probably because the PhDs are so cowed into thinking they will lose their job/career/money/prestige/whatever if they don’t goosestep to the one-worlder tune…the “bottom enders” probably aren’t as interested in the money and prestige and “What would my group think if I went against the grain!?” type stuff…plus, in general, I’ve found the majority of(though not necessarily most) PhD types, while very good in their area of expertise, need to watch youtube videos on how to tie your shoes every morning – they’re not exactly brimming with common sense. I’m not saying all of them, just more often than not…but something tells me you already know that, Doc!
Speaking of population reduction…
https://www.cryptogon.com/
Estes Park is a beautiful place.
We have taught all the Laquishas of the world that the louder they claim to be oppressed, the more respect and attention they will get. By giving in and bending over backwards to accommodate them every time, they have learned their behaviors. Except for antifa / BLM types who are all of the Laquisha tribe, the world has tired of them. Good people of all races have tired of them. Respect is earned, and only then is it given.
One year ago almost to the day, We swooped down into Sodom and Gomorrah aka Denver, and rescued my son and daughter-in-law, and moved them up here to Gods country. Vote with your feet, just say NO!!! It is easier than you think.
I have this book on my shelf. Even though I’ve read MacKay had taken some “liberties” with the stories, it’s more of a study of human nature anyway.
On masks; my wife gets a little edgy when we go out – me not sporting an exterior diaper. She thinks people look at me with disdain for not following mandates. Some do, no doubt. Many, however – especially the men – look at me with envy, as if they can’t nut up and do the same. Life has become far too easy here, I don’t know that we have the numbers to destroy this unbridled communist attack. Live your life, God will surely sort this out.
Tilt,
I had a 3 hour conversation with my father yesterday. He keeps saying the Lord will take care of this. LMAO. Have you ever noticed the Bible is full of war. There are even plenty of Christian songs about war, like “Onward Christian Soldiers”. Nope, it is time to stand up and be counted, the best way you can. Christians need to purchase the book “Rules for Radicals” and start hitting back as best we can.
We cannot take revenge … we can defend ourselves.
Let us know when you realize we’ve been under attack for over 100 years.
Onward Christian Soldiers is about spiritual warfare…though I agree Christians need to stand stronger than we have been…
To paraphrase Queets Twisp from The Ascension Factor by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom,
‘We want them out of power, and we want to make sure they can never again use the powers they usurped, but if we become criminals to deal with criminals, we and our children will be lost.’
I laughed when I read the skunk vs mountain lion bit. Now, I have some experience with both, and I would suggest that it is not a clear cut decision as to which I would sooner encounter. If you know anything about skunks, you would understand what I mean. Sure, mountain lions can tear you up. But skunks can make your life a living hell for a long time, and don’t forget they are often rabid.
Holy cow, I had a skunk make me do a 3-meter horizontal jump one time when I worked at a hotel. I came around the corner near the dumpster, armed with only a Mag-Lite, and something went STTT-STT-STT-STT at me; then came the Olympic long jump. Once I saw what it was I chased it away, but the little bastard would still only run a few feet at a time and then spin around with its teeth bared. We have lots of skunks and possums in this area of the world, and while they’re related they couldn’t be any more different in their actions.
Having said that, I don’t think I’d be chasing the mountain lions away if presented with the same set of circumstance.
When it lifts its tail and points it’s ass at you, that is when YOU need to turn and run away. It only runs a few feet because it knows most critters know better than to mess with it, and so rarely has to flee. You are lucky to have escaped without being perfumed. Your story would be quite different had that happened!
Skunks make great pets, however, but those stink glands have to be removed ofc. I knew a guy who had two skunks and a ferret, and they were like watching otters at play when they would, wrapping around each other and such, and then there were those seeeerious moments, when they’d square off at one another with their hackles raised. You know how animals are.
And yeah, if I’d been sprayed that story of mine wouldn’t be a laugher now, that shit ain’t funny. My brother ran afoul (pun intended) of one and had to take baths in tomato juice for three days. Afterward, I told him he still stank and should continue the fruit baths until further notice, but that’s just what brothers do. Anyway, he can smell a skunk if it’s within 100 yards of him now, so I guess that’s a good thing.
I’ll take a mountain lion over a skunk any day!
Tree – I am with you.
Am I reading this right? Our self proclaimed fiercest warrior is scared of Pepe Le Pew? We truly are doomed in our struggle against evil…
That was an enjoyable read. I finished an article this morning that will dovetail nicely with this one. Incoming. Thank you, Jim
I am starting to wonder if the “elites” consider the masses to be human at all. Like in Dune, “This is a test to see if you are human, young Atreides. ” They don’t act like thinking autonomous people. They act like directionless animals running hiding from their own humanity.
I had this thought after considering how absolutely ridiculous this whole charade has been, and the pathetic level (or absence) critical thought applied to it. I do not understand how people from the most modest to the most intelligent fail to see how completely unnatural the entire event has been. Nothing has ever been attempted like this before, and it went off without a hitch. This is how weakened and pathetic most of humanity is.
I see arguments, where none are warranted. The acceptance of the absurd as an appropriate target of rhetoric is insane and disturbing. The appropriate response to absurdity is to ignore it, or label it as absurd, yet I see vast amounts of energy expended on debating it.
Maybe this is just me coming to terms with just how dissapointing people are. Maybe I am just finally gowing up in this regard. I have always had trouble admitting to myself just how stupid people are. I am no exception, but I meant in a general way. I have spent my whole life imagining people a bit smarter and more balanced than they are, and I really don’t think it has been a successful strategy. So like many people here are saying, I will continue to focus on working on me and mine because that is the only thing I can do.
For those that read Knuckeldragging, he has a really cool article about a couple of fighter pilots in ‘Nam keeping their cool and focusing only on the things they COULD do to survive.
“Is everybody stupid?”
Moe Howard
Everyone is stupid. Which do you see more often, low IQ people coming up with brilliant ideas, or high IQ people doing really stupid stuff?
How old were you when you got your IQ tested? I was pretty young. I think the test measures learning potential more than anything else. They certainly can’t claim to test all types of human intelligence., and I think it’s certainly possible to ruin a potentially good brain.
Have people been IQ tested repeatedly as they age to see if the results change? Can a 10 year old who seems like a genius turn into a dolt?
Anyway, I can’t answer your question because I don’t know anybody’s IQ. Not even my own. Nobody ever told me.
Underwood, these issues today are more affected by emotional quotient than intelligence quotient. I have seen some high IQ people that will be the first to perish because of their intellectual bankrupt state of being.
IQ doesn’t really mean much, does it?
For decades I tried to understand why people do what they do. I eventually came to the conclusion that most people are just plain stupid (and don’t know much and don’t WANT to know much), and suddenly all became clear.
Ken31, you, like me were really hoping the masses were not this stupid, somewhere in the back of our minds we knew they were. I hate being correct so much in clown world.
Jim,
The northern Front Range, from Colorado Springs to Wellington just above Fort Collins and the I-70 Corridor from Denver west to Glenwood Springs, including the Roaring Fork Valley, ie. Aspen is a nightmare. Over crowded and filled with wokesters that can’t live without the face diaper. Estes Park has beautiful vistas but is a giant tourist trap, has been for years. I live in metro Denver and cannot take anymore. When my 90 year old father passes I’m off to Wyoming, the Dakotas or the Panhandle of Nebraska. There are parts of Colorado that I will always miss and if you know where to go there are places that are still untouched by the crowds and inhabited by people with common sense, good manners and a strong sense of Liberty. I spent Monday and Tuesday in one of those places, Walden, CO. Took my last ice fishing trip of the season and enjoyed good conversation with the proprietors of several restaurants, a convenience store and the motel where I stayed. Nobody required masks but, said wear one if you want. None of them, with one exception, sported a face diaper. The town was quiet, its a small ranching community and caters in the summer and fall to fishermen and hunters. Winter sees an influx of snowmobilers but is fairly quiet. This time of year, late winter/ early spring is mud and calving season so it’s pretty much just the locals. If you ever want to see what Colorado used to be that’s where to go, it’s like going back in time 60 years. These are from last May but gives you an idea of what I mean. This is the Colorado I still love and will always miss.
That moose looks very much like the one standing about 10 feet in front of my door last year. The scary part about their fur is that it completly absorbs all of the light from your headlights. They have a habit of standing in the middle of the road, and you just can’t see them at night. Because they have such long spindly legs, their body mass is above the hood on cars, and so when hit – their bodies shear the windshield and A-frame right off. This tends to decapitate anybody in the front seat, and if the car is going fast enough, those in the back seat as well. I respond to 3 or 4 moose collisions a year, and if it’s not a truck or a Swedish car, it’s usually a grim scene. Sweden mandates all cars to be designed to withstand a moose strike, and I will say that if you live in Moose country and you are not a fan of trucks, get a Swedish car.
Horses have much the same effect
Llpoh,
I was called out to put a horse down that had been spooked by a Thunderstorm through a pasture fence on to a hiway late one summer night. Horse was hit by 2 different cars going opposite directions. Remarkably no one in either car was injured severely but the roofs and front ends of both cars were totaled.
Yep, luckily I never hit one of them. Look closely at the the first pic with me holding the fish. If you look at the bumper of the truck you’ll see a crack containing deer hair. A small doe ran on to the hiway I was traveling just before I arrived at the lake. Happened so fast that I was just starting to brake as I hit her. Needless to say it killed her but just a small deer caused over $5000 in damage to my truck.
For some strange reason, I can’t up-vote you on this because it seems like I would be happy for the deer strike. The down-vote seems appropriate because it implies that I’m being being sympathetic. I have hit deer and commiserate with you. It’s very true how they literally seem to come out of nowhere in a split second.
Yep sometimes you can see them ahead and slow down and sometimes they literally burst out of roadside cover literally right in front of you like that one did with me.
Here in Michigan the very large corn fed deer insist on running right into you – it’s usually a door strike damaging everything from front to back.
When I lived in Northern BC the moose are a big problem in winters especially. Black as spades and white legs. They travel roads because they lick the salt and roads are corridors that the nice humans plow and clear for them. In the north you drive slower, not just because of icy roads… but rather those large wandering black barriers. They sure are tasty tho.
I’ve been told better tasting than elk. Never had the opportunity to taste a steak yet. Maybe I’ll get lucky and pull a moose tag this year before I move.q
On the tasty scale… both are a ten. I’d never pass on either.
I agree Doc, Moved from FC to the garden spot of Colorado. Small town, most folks are courteous and friendly no matter if anglo, latino or the few blacks. We didn’t realize it had some of the highest water bills on the front range. Our minimum is $75 for 1000 gallons use in a month.
Years ago I had the pleasure of driving to Waden and visiting their North Park Pioneer museum.
Cow Doc – No desire to return to the SLV? You’d get to turn your watch back a couple of decades!
DinCO….
As a CO resident, I refuse to wear a mask ANYWHERE! Even at restaurants. I’m not playing that stupid game. Yes, I have confrontations every single day and it’s getting old. Cops have been called on me; I’ve been kicked out of stores, etc. I love our beautiful state and am livid over what these liberal idiots have done to it. I’m moving to a small rural town in a red state in 3 weeks. I’m mourning the loss of my beautiful state. I’m truly heartbroken. But I will NEVER bow down to this stupid shit.
I hear you about being sad for your state. The bad thing is that it is going to get much worse before it gets better. I live in a red state but there will be no place to hide soon. We will have to make a stand. I’m sad for my country.
Beautiful writing, Admin! Deeply consoling! You are as necessary to society as Emerson.
It’s nice to open up an article and be refreshed by it, amused by it, and never repelled by anything in it. These days are not the days of rightness and modesty but rather days where spiteful, rude, and fearful bootlickers run crazilly all about seeking and demanding safety from all of society and above all acceptance from their own tribe.
Emerson:
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts. They come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all … That is genius.”
“Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost.”
“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.”
Charles Capper, Professor of History, Boston University:
“Emerson opposed mass-party politics because it was based on nothing more than numbers and majority rule, and he was hostile to mass culture because it was based on manufactured entertainments. Both, he believed, distracted people from the real questions of spiritual health and social justice. Like some critics today, he believed that mass society breeds intellectual mediocrity and conformity. He argued that it produces soft, weak men and women, more prone to whine and whimper than to embrace great challenges.
“Emerson took as his mission the task of lifting people out of the mass and turning them into robust, sturdy individuals who could face life with confidence. While he held out the possibility of such transcendence to all Americans, he knew that not all would respond. He assured those who did that they would achieve greatness and become “guides, redeemers, and benefactors” whose personal transformations and leadership would rescue democracy. Thus if “Self-Reliance” is a pep talk in support for nonconformists, it is also a manual on how to live for those who seek to be individuals in a mass society.”
One critic has called Emerson’s work “deeply unconsoling.”
All well and good, except for his association with the anti-White Boston Brahmin Trancendentalists who supported and idolized terrorist John Brown who butchered his own people.
Emerson referred to Brown as a “saint, whose fate yet hangs in suspense, but whose martyrdom, if it shall be perfected, will make the gallows as glorious as the Cross.”
Emerson was quite “progressive” wasn’t he?
The science spoke very early on.
The CDC said, “Quit buying masks, they don’t work for viruses. If they did we would have recommended them long ago.”
They intend tyranny. They tried in the ’60s and failed, but they don’t give up.
It’s a clear choice, even if policy choices are murky. It’s a choice of tyranny or individual liberty.
If you trust bureaucrats to make policy choices that have the force of law (according to SCOTUS), you should stop and learn more about the results of policies set by bureaucrats.
Agreed – it’s absolutely about tyranny.
A friend recently told me that he was going to bury his firearms in the event of a confiscation (and he is a fellow former Marine!!)
I reminded him of 19 April 1775 in Lexington and Concord. The authorities were marching to confiscate the firearms of the colonists. History does indeed repeat itself.
Doc – when one feels it is time to bury the firearms is probably when they need to start being used…
Whether putting up with the unavoidable hassles at most jobs,
interacting with the public service sector,
fighting city hall,
or dealing with the ‘rona’s new abnormal,
I heard a guy describe it this way once, and it still applies…
“I knew that I’d have to occasionally put up with a certain amount of bullshit from time to time.
But never, did I ever think that I’d be wading through it up to my neck as often as I reluctantly do.”
If these pricks get their way, we might not be able to travel on jets if only vax travel pass holders are allowed.
So, more bullshit.
Great storytelling, JQ.
I like the pics, too, but the ones Doc posted are really good.
Cheers.
Thank you for sharing your trip experiences.
There’s nothing better than Mom and Dad with all the boys together, reads like you made the best of it despite the BS.
Kudos Mr. Quinn
Colorado is a beautiful place. That family is more beautiful. We need a lot more of them.
thank you for the pictorial trip to my old stomping grounds. Unfortunately, I no longer visit the state I grew up in, due to it’s state. And as for the air travel, I’ve sworn that off, too.
Glad you had the chance to visit with your kids.
Alec MacGillis on Twitter: “”The wealth of nine of the country’s top titans has increased by more than $360 billion in the past year. And they are all tech barons, underscoring the power of the industry in the U.S. economy.” Nine people. One year. $360 billion. https://t.co/zNhoAQaLm1” / Twitter
Star – who has increased their wealth? Their wealth increased because 1) the banks are effectively issuing free money, and people/corporations/etc are speculating with it, and 2) idiot small investors think the market will never turn and are buying up those stocks fast as they can.
Amazon I get. They are actually offering a service at least. The rest – not so much.
There is an Australian company -Atlassian – that is some minor player in tech, that is valued at something like 100 times sales, last I looked. That defines insane. 100 times sales, not profit. Sales. And the major shareholders are all woke. Fantastic.
Exactly. They got rich because speculators drove up the value of stock they owned.
Sadly, I read that young people plan to spend at least half of their “stimulus” checks speculating in the market.
It’s not a sad thing at all. Young people speculating in the market is a great thing. It’s a rigged game, a money harvesting operation like the world has never seen. But because of its size, a minor player can weave in and out and take away impressive amounts of money, if they have a good strategy and learn some simple discipline. And if a young person can learn to do that, there are your entrepreneurs of tomorrow, same skill set. All we have to do is destroy the monopolies and give them a shot
Star,
What stocks are the young people going to buy?
The “Tech Giants” aren’t really monopolies, although they’d like to be.
I have serious doubts that the majority of people jumping in on the bubble will do well out of it.
Few weeks back roaming around the internet, I chanced upon the video of the mass shooting in Christchurch. What I understand is you can go to prison for 10 years in New Zealand or Australia for merely watching that video. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to see it, but I was curious as to why it would be such a major offense to merely watch it. it was an eye-opening experience. For the first time in my life I realized how much damage a single sick individual could do with what I consider a fairly routine firearm with a few 30 round magazines. And second, I realized how our present situation is going to be resolved. I’m a peaceful man, as I imagine everyone here is. but we are a country of 330 million people. My state has stayed open. All this shit is stuff you hear about on TV. But a lot of people got abused. In a population of 330 million people there are some that will figure this out. Bezos is a parasite. Bezos is a cancer. People like Bezos are having a moment. It won’t last
1) not for watching it in either country. Illegal in NZ to distribute it. 2) neither applies to Australia.
Star – be a bit more careful with your facts.
It’s very disturbing until you start watching it closely. Fake as hell. That’s why they try to keep it under wraps. When you shoot someone from 10 feet away and their head is a foot from a wall , you’d expect a little gore on the wall , from a .223 ….as an example.
Totally fake. Looks like the Quake first-person shooter 3D engine superimposed on live video recording.
Christ Church was CGI false flag event. Watch @ 4 Mins as the shells do not hit the ground. No shells on sidewalk. no sound. That is why the scrubbed it from most places.
Great story, admin. Diversity is still our strength and government our savior. My neighbor, who has terminal cancer recently chose to go to Colorado for his last trip. He got back a couple of weeks ago and now is unresponsive. The family has gathered . Life is short. Enjoy it while you can.
I thought I would relate a little incident that happened last night. We were out for a birthday celebration at a restaurant in an area where I did not expect to be a minority. I guess I just was not as familiar with the area as I should have been or I would have refused to eat there. We arrived a little early and waited at the bar for our friends. There was only one table besides ours, as far as I could see, where there were other white people and they left shortly after we arrived.
Anyway while at the bar a couple of people sat down next to my husband. One of them was heard to say that their stimi check was already in the bank. Then he said “Now if we can just get reparations”.
I don’t plan on doing anymore flying. I’ve hated it ever since 9/11. I haven’t flown since the plandemic. I don’t plan to, either. They can kick you off anytime for any reason. Then you are stranded and probably on youtube. No thanks. I’ll drive.
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Hope you didn’t miss the New Belgium Brewery tour. If you did, consider making it a stop next time you go. Fort Collins isn’t far from Loveland.
We did that on a previous trip.
View from my son’s house this morning.
Got skiis or snowboards?
Yup. You got out just in time. I shoveled 5 separate times over the weekend…3 of them were 8″ deep or more. Started blowing like a mother Sunday afternoon too. Drifting was bad.
Loveland got over two feet. My son said it was a bitch shoveling on Sunday with the 40 mph winds.
Sure was….3 times yesterday. I’ve got some massive piles on each side of my driveway and a sore back to attest.
Officially 28 inches total in Parker, where I live.
Wyoming caught the worst of it Thank God. Colorado front range still took a hit but if that low would have set up about 90 miles south of where it did things would really be ugly in Denver right now. Just finished digging my Dad out in Wheat Ridge and I’m guessing he has about 20 to 24 inches.
My best friend lives in Co. outside of Boulder so have visited many a time and seen some great shows at Red Rocks.
One time while heading into Estes the road was blocked by about 20 mule deer,hit the horn/no response so said “Fuck It”,put in Motley Crues “Primal Scream at full volume windows down,still,they did not move!I finally got out of vehicle and slapped em in the ass to get moving,worked.
I really need to get a hunting tag out there someday!
On our annual migration from ID to AZ, we spent two months hiking in UT. The only people wearing masks on the trails were young people in their 20’s and 30’s. Most of the people 40+ were maskless like us, and it was nice to be able to say hello and have a brief chat with some of them. The mask wearers would recoil in horror and try to get past us as fast as possible like we were Ebola carriers. There were mostly CO, CA, and OR license plates in those trailhead parking areas.
Robert, you need a nice travel trailer, a loaded RV Van, or a class A or C. Go where you want, as you want, wearing what you want, with pets, grandkids, neighbors, etc. You can fix a great breakfast anytime you want, and it is peaceful, relaxing, and has the potential to be anonymous. I have always hated flying, and I damn sure wouldn’t climb in a plane/jet now. The level of nitwits allowed in that sealed metal tube with you is frightening. It will escalate with the craziness tolerance. I know that flying is quick, but is it really? Time to and from the airport, getting your government sanctioned molestation, and that is if there isn’t some crazy with an ax to grind. RVs are really a throw back to civilized Pan Am, circa 1955.
Funny, I was just out your way last week. My business partner and I flew into Philly and drove into Mechanicsburg. Got all our work done 2 days so we headed out Wednesday morning. Took the chocolate tour in Hershey and then spend a couple of hours that afternoon wandering around Valley Forge. Pretty damn good trip and no real nonsense. Stayed in an VRBO house…so we didn’t have to deal with hotel nonsense. 3 bedroom right on the river in Harrisburg for $95 a night. That’s the way to travel.
I hope you wore your mask while touring Valley Forge. It is Federal property and Dementia Joe declared you must wear a mask outside in the bright sunshine.
Uh…no.
I’d say 50/50…so not too bad.
Jesus, we would seem like a different species (a sniveling, useless one) to those men.
Admin . . . I sorta drifted out while reading, was really “there”, aided by pictures and picturesque language, but one thing shook me out of my daydream, and it distills to this:
Hot wheels – baseball cards – whiskey = same thing, except that one is not for children.
They’re still using the bogus test, right? The one that produces at least 70% false positives the way they use it?
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Please post this Admin. Thank you
Great article.
I’ll post it for ya.
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Being immune to the herd is just as important as herd immunity.
Jeff, as Wayne Dyer said: “you follow the herd, you step in the shit”
Admin, Stranger In A Strange Land is a very timely book to read. If Jesus himself appeared and told the masses they did not need to fear the bug and wear the mask; I suspect he would be arrested and killed.
I know an old Cowboy (Boomer) who never goes anywhere without his trademark sombrero, pistola and boots (it’s an image thing).
Yet, if I would have told him 18 months ago that he would wear a mask where he was told to he would have thought it as ridiculous of an idea as him wearing a mini-skirt with the rest of his uniform.
That is the reality we are dealing with and people are sorting themselves out at a record pace these days. Or at least it’s becoming quite clear to everyone else.
First, you were from out of state, in Estes Park. Well, so was everyone you met there. Damn few real Coloradoans wear a mask if they aren’t forbidden from entering an establishment without one. Blame our POS Governor. And, POS local officials.
Second, as to a lot of your other complaints, see above. Most of the locals don’t want these uninformed policies, either. You said, “In my mind I always thought Colorado was populated by lovers of the outdoors, who hunted, skied, and generally had a frontier mindset.” And you were absolutely right. See above about Estes Park, the premier tourist trap of Colorado. Trust me, almost all of the locals look at those driving in their cars, windows up, wearing a face mask and face shield. I used to raise sheep in Michigan, I think I recognized some of them. Except that sheep, while truly dumb, aren’t that dumb. All I’m saying, is cut the rest of Colorado some slack. We’re actually just like you, but with better scenery. Y’all are welcome back anytime.
Thought I’d escape the mask trap when Gov. Abbot declared masks were no longer necessary
in Texas. Unfortunately he forgot to tell us individual businesses are free to demand you wear a
mask. In my Democrat-controlled town every major outlet demands you wear a mask.
Oh, yes our CO governor is an idiot! As are those that listen to him. He has declared a “non-meat” day March 20th. (Cattle are our number one ag product.) The governor color codes our permitted activities and has mandated masks forever. Out east in the Ranchland we don’t pay any attention to all his covid nonsense. Our sheriff said it was up to his constituents to decide whether they carry a gun or wear a mask. No one wears masks. The schools are open and in person. Meetings, church and other activities are continuing (without anyone’s permission). We only notice the “nonsense” when we go to the city.
i absolutely LOVE this post! it totally made my day!
Never trust the government. Never trust ANY politician. Never take any “vaccine” that alters your genetic structure.
First off, I don’t wear masks. If you want my money, you better start showing me you’re a capitolist and not a communist. Vote with your wallets folks. I stopped at my local grocery store to hunt down one of the ever elusive whiskeys that has escaped my keen eye and wallet. Stopped at another branch and struck out beforehand. I couldn’t settle for visual confirmation alone that they had none in stock because damnit, their website says otherwise. I decided to have the check out chick phone one of the stock guys. 20 minutes later, I was older and still empty handed, but they made the attempt and that was good customer service on their part.
I’m late getting to read this article but just wanted you to know how much I appreciated it.
You wrote: “I guess those fried chicken sandwiches (with bacon) and double cheeseburgers (with bacon) weren’t all that healthy. Who knew?”
I think it’s the bun not the burger and bacon making you gain weight. Next time, just wrap the burger and bacon in a big piece of lettuce.
I don’t wear a mask because it is actually harmful, especially to people with breathing difficulties. I have asthma, and here in NC, the governors mask mandate exempts people with certain medical conditions – one of which is respiratory difficulties.
But I wouldn’t wear one if I were healthy because they are medically useless.
The mask idiocy is nationwide, and is getting worse – recently I have started seeing people wearing double or triple masks. Ignorance knows no bounds.